While a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst.

Solution providers and vendors gathered in Dallas recently for XChange Solution Provider 2015. XChange also was the venue for CRN's 25th annual Channel Champions awards. Here are the victors in each technology category.

Ingram Micro leaders discussed everything from how commoditization threatens hosted cloud to why small businesses are most typically cloud pioneers to the continued need for on-premise infrastructure during the company's 2015 Cloud Summit in Phoenix.

Last week's HP Global Partner Conference saw HP roll out several new server, storage, and other solutions and products for enterprise and SMB IT infrastructures, and showed the company's upcoming split has not slowed down product development.